Quote Originally Posted by DavidEccleston View Post
The cheapest option is open shade, but that won't generally work at the beach or spontaneous/candid shots.
Thanks for the link. No there isn't much shade at the beach area that we were at. But I did pretty much the same thing of shooting from all directions trying to find what would work best. We even went again right before dinner hoping later in the day would be better but apparently it wasn't late enough. I did bring a flash with but it really didn't help much. Plus our dog was getting pretty adament that he would rather be chasing birds than looking at me!